R v Scott (Peter)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLord Justice Aikens,or
Judgment Date24 November 2009
Neutral Citation[2009] EWCA Crim 2457
Docket NumberCase No: 2008/06041/D2
CourtCourt of Appeal (Criminal Division)
Date24 November 2009

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  • Dr Olakunle Arowojolu v General Medical Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 11 December 2019
    ...may be evidence of bad character for these purposes, the matter in issue in such cases being the complainant's credibility: R v S [2009] EWCA Crim 2457, [40] – 73 The Crown Court Compendium suggests the following directions to the jury in relation to s 100 at [12–28]. It says the judge sho......
  • Paul Edward Phillips v R
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 21 December 2011
    ...Notes accompanying the Criminal Justice Bill anticipated the exclusion of evidence which was of marginal or trivial value. In Scott [2009] EWCA Crim 2457, Aikens LJ expressed the view of the Court that: "45…In the context of section 100 of the 2003 Act, we think that the word "substantial" ......
  • Ferguson v The State
    • Trinidad & Tobago
    • Court of Appeal (Trinidad and Tobago)
    • 16 December 2016
    ...[2010] EWCA Crim. 1082, Brewster v. R [2010] EWCA Crim. 1194, R v. Miller [2010] EWCA Crim. 1153 and R v. Peter Wayne Scott [2009] EWCA Crim. 2457 were relied on to support this contention. In R v. Braithwaite [Supra ], Hughes, L.J. said: “In a case such as the present, where “important exp......
  • R v Hashib Apabhai and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 18 March 2011
    ...to describe the kind of allegation relied on in this case. 33 He relies on the decision of this court in the case of Scott [2009] EWCA Crim 2457. In that case the defendant was convicted of rape. He sought to adduce evidence that the complainant had harassed a witness who was giving evidenc......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Substantially confused? The paradox of Golds R v Golds [2016] UKSC 61
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage Journal of Criminal Law, The No. 81-2, April 2017
    • 1 April 2017
    ...the evidence concerned has something more than trivial probative valuebut it is not necessarily of conclusive probative value’ (RvS[2009] EWCA Crim 2457 at [45]). For amore detailed account, see ‘More than merely more than minimal: The meaning of the term “substantial”in the context of dimi......

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